Details are still pretty light, but Activision made the revival official at the Gamescom conference this week.

Here’s everything we know so far:

The new Sierra will be more of a publisher than an in-house development team

They’ll be helping smaller indie studios build games around classic Sierra IP, though they’re open to publishing fully-original titles as well.

They’ve announced two titles in the works so far: a new Kings Quest and Geometry Wars 3

The new Kings Quest will be built by indie dev house The Odd Gentleman, who built the super well-received PC/Xbox puzzler The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom. If you’ve played the game, you’d probably agree: this seems like a damned good fit.

It’s an interesting move. Many of the people behind the titles that Sierra is best known for (Kings Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, etc.) are long retired — so “getting the band back together” wasn’t really an option.

If the options, then, were “let Sierra’s old games fade away forever,” “spend a ton of money to hire a bunch of new developers/artists to try to recreate something that resembles Sierra in its glory days,” or “let carefully selected indie developers with proven track records take a stab at making these old series great again,” I’m glad they went with Door No. 3.